At the 1986 Oscars, Anjelica Huston won the Oscar for best supporting actress for her performance in Prizzi’s Honor—a gangster dramedy directed by her father, John Huston. While it was one of the greatest achievements of the actress’s career, it also came with an unfortunate side effect, according to Huston: a silent feud with Oprah Winfrey, who was also a front-runner in the category for The Color Purple. In a sprawling interview with New York magazine, Huston claimed that after she beat Winfrey, the future TV icon would not invite her on The Oprah Winfrey Show, or even speak to her when they happened to cross paths at events.

“She never had me on her show, ever,” Huston said. “She won’t talk to me.”

Huston continued, recalling a time she ran into Winfrey. “The only encounter I’ve had with Oprah was when I was at a party for the Academy Awards, a private residence,” she said. “I was talking to Clint Eastwood, and she literally came between us with her back to me. So all of the sudden I was confronted with the back of Oprah’s head.”

Huston seems certain that the cold shoulder is because she beat Winfrey at the Oscars. “Nobody else would dislike me so much as to literally, physically come in between the person I was talking with that way,” she added. “But I admire Oprah. God knows, she’s made some big steps.”

That year, The Color Purple earned a whopping 11 Oscar nods, including nominations for best picture, best actress (Whoopi Goldberg), and another best-supporting-actress nod (Margaret Avery). But it didn’t win any statuettes. In an essay after the fact, film critic Roger Ebert wrote about the perfect storm that resulted in the snubs, from racism within the Academy’s voting ranks, to protests of the film from the black community, to Academy resistance toward rewarding Steven Spielberg, who had already reached outstanding commercial and cultural heights at that point in his career. A variety of factors seemed to contribute to the film going home empty-handed (though, in later years, it became a widely regarded classic).

Winfrey has also talked about that fateful night in interviews, but she has never focused on Huston or the political tussle behind the scenes. In a 2012 interview, Winfrey said the main thing on her mind that night was actually her malfunctioning dress, which had been tailored too tightly and had a collar that was practically choking her all night.

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“I sat the whole night holding on to the collar,” she said. “And I was praying for someone else to win . . . ‘Cause I knew I couldn’t get out of the chair.”

In a 2017 essay, Gayle King also wrote about her best friend’s snub, writing that Winfrey’s wardrobe troubles really were that petrifying. “She was sitting there thinking, ‘Please don’t call my name, please don’t call my name, please don’t call my name,’” King wrote. “Because of her dress! Prizzi’s Honor won that year: Anjelica Huston, also a very good performance.”

However, King added, so many people told Winfrey they had voted for her that King really thought her friend would take the trophy. “Everyone kept coming up to her and saying, ‘You’re going to win. I voted for you.’ And I believed it,” King continued.

Alas, Winfrey didn’t get it that year—but she was ultimately awarded an honorary Oscar in 2011, delivering an emotional, off-the-cuff speech tracing her journey as an actress. “To this day, the Color Purple experience is one of the greatest experiences of my life,” she said.

Huston, meanwhile, would land two more Oscar nominations: in 1990, for Enemies: A Love Story, and in 1991 for The Grifters.